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Neelie Kroes Recognized by Global Entrepreneurship Network for Championing Startups
The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), an organization of programs and initiatives that promote entrepreneurial growth, honored Neelie Kroes, Special Envoy for startups in the Netherlands, with the 2015 Startup Nations Award for Groundbreaking Policy Thinking. The award will be presented at the Startup Nations Summit in Monterrey, Mexico during Global Entrepreneurship Week (Nov. 16-22, 2015).
Kroes was recognized for her instrumental analysis, innovative policy approaches and groundbreaking program concepts which significantly expand the frontier of entrepreneurship policy thinking in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.
"As governments become more sophisticated in engaging with startup communities, the work being done in Netherlands can serve as an example—not just throughout Europe but around the world," said Jonathan Ortmans, president of the Global Entrepreneurship Network. "Ms. Kroes' continues to be an influential driver of groundbreaking policy thinking in the region."
For the past 6 years, Kroes has helped put the subject of startups firmly on the agendas of major companies, banks, investors, government entities and knowledge institutes. She served as vice president of the European Commission for the Digital Agenda and put the topic of startups high on the European agenda. After stepping down from the European Commission, Kroes was appointed to lead StartupDelta, an initiative to make the Netherlands the best connected startup ecosystem and in Europe's top 3 for startups.
"The StartupDelta team and I are determined to make the Netherlands the epicenter of disruption for startups. The Dutch startups have an abundance of talent and great ideas and are rapidly building a strong and connected ecosystem. We're rolling out the orange carpet to any global startup hub, in order to attract venture capitalists, corporate partners and startups. Everyone needs to know that StartupDelta is Europe's West-Coast for awesome startups." according to Kroes.
Kroes was the driving force behind the Startup Europe programme that aims to strengthen the business environment for startups so that their ideas and business can start and grow in the European Union. Part of that programme was the Startup Leaders Manifesto, with inspiring founders from, Skype, Tuenti and Rovio, that was presented to the Chairman of the European Council, which inspired other national startup communities to do the same in their countries. This led a movement within the EU to change the business climate in favor of startups.
Startup Nations Summit
There will be nearly 100 delegates from 56 countries attending the Startup Nations Summit in Monterey, Mexico, where Sigrid Johannisse, director of StartupDelta, will accept the award on Kroes' behalf. The Groundbreaking Policy Thinking Award is one of a series of three Startup Nations awards recognized during the Summit on Nov. 21 2015.
The selection committee based its decision in part on the program or initiative's contribution to unveiling new angles, perspectives or policy areas brought to the entrepreneurship discussion table, the extent to which the nominee helped shift public discourse on startups and scale-ups in the public sector and ability to replicate the initiative or adapt it to other communities or policy areas.
About Startup Nations
Startup Nations is a global network of policymakers and program leaders focused on exploring different regulatory changes and policy ideas to help accelerate new and young firm formation. The organization hosts the Startup Nations Summit each year in a different city around the world, gathering its network of startup community leaders and policymakers. The Summit helps better enable high-impact entrepreneurship, especially through the identification of policy levers and smart, public sector driven programs. The Global Entrepreneurship Network co-hosts the event each year, and the Summit is held in late November, starting over the weekend culminating the annual Global Entrepreneurship Week celebration.
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Famous rapper injured in New York City crash
December 19, 2013 • Car Accidents
On behalf of Rosenberg, Minc, Falkoff & Wolff, LLP
As evidenced by a recent crash in New York City, no one is immune to car accidents. Even the rich and famous can be victims of car accidents. They may even suffer injuries serious enough to warrant a trip to the hospital.
Last week, rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was involved in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway. According to reports, a truck rear-ended the rapper's vehicle after its load shifted, causing the driver to lose control. Information on the rapper's website indicates that the impact of the accident almost caused the SUV he was in to flip over.
The rapper was taken to New York Hospital Queens. Fortunately, he only suffered minor injuries to his neck and back.
Jackson was in the passenger seat. His driver also suffered injuries in the accident.
A car accident can do more than just derail a person's plans. When people are in a car accident in New York City or elsewhere, they may suffer serious injuries that require hospitalization, surgery and rehabilitation. It can alter a person's entire life.
When the car accident is the result of another driver's negligence, victims may be able to pursue legal action in the form of a personal injury lawsuit. Although most car accidents are unintentional, driver's who are reckless and inattentive should be held responsible.
Money that is obtained through a personal injury lawsuit can be used to cover medical expenses and lost wages. After all, people should not have to suffer financial setbacks because of another person's negligent behavior.
Source: New York Times, "50 Cent Injured in Car Accident," James C. McKinley Jr., June 26, 2012

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'Tidying Up With Marie Kondo' Finally Made Me Feel Represented, As A Japanese-American Woman
By Mika Doyle
Courtesy of Mika Doyle
Americans just can't seem to get enough of Japanese organizational guru Marie Kondo's new Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, which premiered on Jan. 1 on the streaming service. I have to admit I'd only just heard about Kondo and her KonMari Method of organizing last year, so I tuned in to see what the hype was all about. As the daughter of a Japanese mom and an American dad, I hit play with a lot of skepticism because whenever something "Japanese" starts trending in America, I usually find that that thing — whether it's Memoirs of a Geisha or the white-washing of Ghost in the Shell — ends up being full of Asian stereotypes, misinformation, and cultural appropriation. But when I watched Tidying Up, I actually got to see a representation of a Japanese woman that made me feel like I was sitting at the kitchen table making gyoza with my mom.
Now, let me just say right up front that Kondo and my mom are nothing alike, apart from the fact that they're both Japanese — obviously, just because they're both Japanese women doesn't mean they're the same. My mom was born in Osaka, while Kondo was born in Tokyo, a distinction that is super important to Japanese people. There's a pretty big cultural difference between Osaka and Tokyo, kind of like how there's a cultural difference between the American West Coast and the American East Coast. I saw this immediately when watching Tidying Up. Throughout the show, Kondo was quiet, kind, and reserved, though she has moments where she brings a kind of playfulness and joy to her work. My mom is also really quiet when she's around people she doesn't know, and she's the kindest person I know.
But with family, my mom is a true Osaka native. She's loud, hilarious, and has always appreciated my sarcastic, biting sense of humor. After watching just one episode of Tidying Up, my mom turned to me and commented, "Wow, [Kondo] is very Japanese." That's not to say Kondo might not be a very different in the privacy of her own home, but this is the Kondo my mom and I saw when watching her show.
But there were times when watching Kondo on Tidying Up hit me on a deeply personal level. In the first episode, Kondo introduces the idea thanking each item before discarding it, as well as greeting the house and thanking it for protecting the family, principles which are spelled out in her 2014 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. My mom has always believed in gratitude, whether it's for family, for the items in our lives, for the roof over our heads, or for the events that have happened in our lives. She and my dad moved out of my childhood home last year, and on their last day in that home, she went from room to room and thanked the house for providing for our family for more than 20 years.
Like Kondo, my mom has always believed in treating the items in our homes with respect, but particularly any of the items I've gotten in Japan, like my kokeshi dolls or my ichimatsu doll. I can be bad about taking proper care of my things, so Mom reminded me recently to get the dust off them and show them love and respect. It's an act that resonates so much with Kondo's style: "The things that are around you, inside your home […] are there to support you, and this really gives you that sense of inner peace, and […] even though […] the world is quite chaotic, having that sense of inner peace really helps you," Kondo told Bustle in an interview last year.
There's also Kondo's use of little boxes to organize things, which seems so revolutionary to American people — a fact she points out in Life-Changing Magic — but is actually quite commonplace in Japan. My mom told me Japanese dollar stores sell small boxes and drawer separators to make organizing so much easier. But since she's never been able to find those in the United States, she's always saved shoe boxes and other small boxes to use inside drawers and bins. When I saw Kondo teaching Americans this method of organizing, I immediately picked up the phone and called my mom. I couldn't believe something she'd been teaching me all my life was on a Netflix show.
But this isn't a competition between Kondo and my mom about who organizes the best. This is about how I finally saw someone so similar to my mom on Netflix that I felt the urge to call her. And that's such a big deal, because I have rarely ever seen my culture represented without stereotypes in a mainstream American production.
Before the 1960s, Japanese men in American films were typically portrayed as small people with black-framed glasses and big teeth, says Japan Today. Women, on the other hand, were typically portrayed as the "geisha" stereotype, or hyper-feminine, subservient, and eager to please men, according to Japan Today. Later, Japanese people were able to "diversify" into roles like samurais and ninjas, says Japan Today. Today, Asian actors are starting to get better roles (Crazy Rich Asians FTW, right?), but they're still only representing one percent of the leading roles in Hollywood, according to Teen Vogue.
I couldn't believe something [my mom had] been teaching me all my life was on a Netflix special.
But in Kondo's Netflix special, Kondo is just herself. She's just a regular Japanese woman teaching other people how to tidy their houses. And unlike the many people who have spoken loudly or slowly to my mom for having a foreign accent — something so many people in America who speak multiple languages face — most of the people on the show speak to Kondo at a normal pace. I wish more people would show my mom the same kind of respect Kondo received on her show. After all, my mom is smart enough to speak not one, but two languages.
Most people are watching Kondo's show to get her super awesome tidying tips. Me? I'm getting those tips, too. But I'm also watching in the hopes that Kondo's show is a big step in normalizing Japanese culture to a country I've called home my entire life.


Federal laws prohibit employers from discriminating against disabled job applicants. This has not, however, stopped some companies from overlooking qualified disabled candidates and hiring less qualified workers instead, as researchers at Rutgers University and Syracuse University recently discovered.
In fact, these researchers developed thousands of fake cover letters, using them to apply to more than 6,000 accounting positions, in an effort to find out just how and when employers may be discriminating against disabled job applicants.
33% disclosed no disability whatsoever.
Another set of letters for highly qualified applicants who had experience that matched the position.
Based on this framework, these researchers predicted that better qualifications and more experience would result in less discrimination against disabled job applicants.
The type of disability a candidate had did not seem to matter as much as the fact that the applicant was disabled.
Employers were about twice as likely to discriminate against disabled job applicants who had experience (when compared to disabled job applicants with little to no experience).
The companies that were most likely to exhibit these discriminatory practices in the hiring process were those that were not covered by federal discrimination laws and/or that do not work on government contracts.
The overall pattern of findings is consistent with the idea that disability discrimination continues to impede employment prospects of people with disabilities, and more attention needs to be paid to employer behavior and the demand side of the labor market for people with disabilities.
What do you think about this study and its findings regarding disability discrimination in the hiring process? Post your opinions on our Facebook & Google+ pages.
If you have been the target of discrimination at work, you can turn to an experienced Atlanta employment lawyer at the Law Firm of Barrett & Farahany, LLP for aggressive legal advocacy and the highest quality legal services.


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from oslo_utils import uuidutils
import six
import webob

from nova.api.openstack import api_version_request
from nova.api.openstack.compute.legacy_v2.contrib import admin_actions as \
    migrate_server_v2
from nova.api.openstack.compute import migrate_server as \
    migrate_server_v21
from nova import exception
from nova import test
from nova.tests.unit.api.openstack.compute import admin_only_action_common
from nova.tests.unit.api.openstack import fakes

class MigrateServerTestsV21(admin_only_action_common.CommonTests):
    migrate_server = migrate_server_v21
    controller_name = 'MigrateServerController'
    validation_error = exception.ValidationError
    _api_version = '2.1'
    disk_over_commit = False

    def setUp(self):
        super(MigrateServerTestsV21, self).setUp()
        self.controller = getattr(self.migrate_server, self.controller_name)()
        self.compute_api = self.controller.compute_api

        def _fake_controller(*args, **kwargs):
            return self.controller

        self.stubs.Set(self.migrate_server, self.controller_name,
                       _fake_controller)
        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(self.compute_api, 'get')

    def _get_migration_body(self, **kwargs):
        return {'os-migrateLive': self._get_params(**kwargs)}

    def _get_params(self, **kwargs):
        return {'host': kwargs.get('host'),
                 'block_migration': kwargs.get('block_migration') or False,
                 'disk_over_commit': self.disk_over_commit}

    def test_migrate(self):
        method_translations = {'_migrate': 'resize',
                               '_migrate_live': 'live_migrate'}
        body_map = {'_migrate_live': self._get_migration_body(host='hostname')}
        args_map = {'_migrate_live': ((False, self.disk_over_commit,
                                       'hostname'), {})}
        self._test_actions(['_migrate', '_migrate_live'], body_map=body_map,
                           method_translations=method_translations,
                           args_map=args_map)

    def test_migrate_none_hostname(self):
        method_translations = {'_migrate': 'resize',
                               '_migrate_live': 'live_migrate'}
        body_map = {'_migrate_live': self._get_migration_body(host=None)}
        args_map = {'_migrate_live': ((False, self.disk_over_commit, None),
                                      {})}
        self._test_actions(['_migrate', '_migrate_live'], body_map=body_map,
                           method_translations=method_translations,
                           args_map=args_map)

    def test_migrate_with_non_existed_instance(self):
        body_map = self._get_migration_body(host='hostname')
        self._test_actions_with_non_existed_instance(
            ['_migrate', '_migrate_live'], body_map=body_map)

    def test_migrate_raise_conflict_on_invalid_state(self):
        method_translations = {'_migrate': 'resize',
                               '_migrate_live': 'live_migrate'}
        body_map = self._get_migration_body(host='hostname')
        args_map = {'_migrate_live': ((False, self.disk_over_commit,
                                       'hostname'), {})}
        exception_arg = {'_migrate': 'migrate',
                         '_migrate_live': 'os-migrateLive'}
        self._test_actions_raise_conflict_on_invalid_state(
            ['_migrate', '_migrate_live'], body_map=body_map,
            args_map=args_map, method_translations=method_translations,
            exception_args=exception_arg)

    def test_actions_with_locked_instance(self):
        method_translations = {'_migrate': 'resize',
                               '_migrate_live': 'live_migrate'}

        body_map = {'_migrate_live':
                    self._get_migration_body(host='hostname')}
        args_map = {'_migrate_live': ((False, self.disk_over_commit,
                                       'hostname'), {})}
        self._test_actions_with_locked_instance(
            ['_migrate', '_migrate_live'], body_map=body_map,
            args_map=args_map, method_translations=method_translations)

    def _test_migrate_exception(self, exc_info, expected_result):
        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(self.compute_api, 'resize')
        instance = self._stub_instance_get()
        self.compute_api.resize(self.context, instance).AndRaise(exc_info)

        self.mox.ReplayAll()
        self.assertRaises(expected_result,
                          self.controller._migrate,
                          self.req, instance['uuid'], {'migrate': None})

    def test_migrate_too_many_instances(self):
        exc_info = exception.TooManyInstances(overs='', req='', used=0,
                                              allowed=0)
        self._test_migrate_exception(exc_info, webob.exc.HTTPForbidden)

    def _test_migrate_live_succeeded(self, param):
        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(self.compute_api, 'live_migrate')
        instance = self._stub_instance_get()
        self.compute_api.live_migrate(self.context, instance, False,
                                      self.disk_over_commit, 'hostname')

        self.mox.ReplayAll()

        res = self.controller._migrate_live(self.req, instance.uuid,
                                            body={'os-migrateLive': param})
        # NOTE: on v2.1, http status code is set as wsgi_code of API
        # method instead of status_int in a response object.
        if self._api_version == '2.1':
            status_int = self.controller._migrate_live.wsgi_code
        else:
            status_int = res.status_int
        self.assertEqual(202, status_int)

    def test_migrate_live_enabled(self):
        param = self._get_params(host='hostname')
        self._test_migrate_live_succeeded(param)

    def test_migrate_live_enabled_with_string_param(self):
        param = {'host': 'hostname',
                 'block_migration': "False",
                 'disk_over_commit': "False"}
        self._test_migrate_live_succeeded(param)

    def test_migrate_live_without_host(self):
        body = self._get_migration_body()
        del body['os-migrateLive']['host']
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def test_migrate_live_without_block_migration(self):
        body = self._get_migration_body()
        del body['os-migrateLive']['block_migration']
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def test_migrate_live_without_disk_over_commit(self):
        body = {'os-migrateLive':
                {'host': 'hostname',
                 'block_migration': False}}
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def test_migrate_live_with_invalid_block_migration(self):
        body = self._get_migration_body(block_migration='foo')
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def test_migrate_live_with_invalid_disk_over_commit(self):
        body = {'os-migrateLive':
                {'host': 'hostname',
                 'block_migration': False,
                 'disk_over_commit': "foo"}}
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def test_migrate_live_missing_dict_param(self):
        body = self._get_migration_body(host='hostname')
        del body['os-migrateLive']['host']
        body['os-migrateLive']['dummy'] = 'hostname'
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def _test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
                                         self, fake_exc,
                                         uuid=None,
                                         expected_exc=webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest,
                                         check_response=True):
        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(self.compute_api, 'live_migrate')

        instance = self._stub_instance_get(uuid=uuid)
        self.compute_api.live_migrate(self.context, instance, False,
                                      self.disk_over_commit,
                                      'hostname').AndRaise(fake_exc)

        self.mox.ReplayAll()

        body = self._get_migration_body(host='hostname')
        ex = self.assertRaises(expected_exc,
                               self.controller._migrate_live,
                               self.req, instance.uuid, body=body)
        if check_response:
            self.assertIn(six.text_type(fake_exc), ex.explanation)

    def test_migrate_live_compute_service_unavailable(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.ComputeServiceUnavailable(host='host'))

    def test_migrate_live_invalid_hypervisor_type(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.InvalidHypervisorType())

    def test_migrate_live_invalid_cpu_info(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.InvalidCPUInfo(reason=""))

    def test_migrate_live_unable_to_migrate_to_self(self):
        uuid = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
                exception.UnableToMigrateToSelf(instance_id=uuid,
                                                host='host'),
                                                uuid=uuid)

    def test_migrate_live_destination_hypervisor_too_old(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.DestinationHypervisorTooOld())

    def test_migrate_live_no_valid_host(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.NoValidHost(reason=''))

    def test_migrate_live_invalid_local_storage(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.InvalidLocalStorage(path='', reason=''))

    def test_migrate_live_invalid_shared_storage(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.InvalidSharedStorage(path='', reason=''))

    def test_migrate_live_hypervisor_unavailable(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.HypervisorUnavailable(host=""))

    def test_migrate_live_instance_not_active(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.InstanceInvalidState(
                instance_uuid='', state='', attr='', method=''),
            expected_exc=webob.exc.HTTPConflict,
            check_response=False)

    def test_migrate_live_pre_check_error(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.MigrationPreCheckError(reason=''))

    def test_migrate_live_migration_with_unexpected_error(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.MigrationError(reason=''),
            expected_exc=webob.exc.HTTPInternalServerError,
            check_response=False)

class MigrateServerTestsV2(MigrateServerTestsV21):
    migrate_server = migrate_server_v2
    controller_name = 'AdminActionsController'
    validation_error = webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest
    _api_version = '2'

class MigrateServerTestsV225(MigrateServerTestsV21):

    # We don't have disk_over_commit in v2.25
    disk_over_commit = None

    def setUp(self):
        super(MigrateServerTestsV225, self).setUp()
        self.req.api_version_request = api_version_request.APIVersionRequest(
            '2.25')

    def _get_params(self, **kwargs):
        return {'host': kwargs.get('host'),
                 'block_migration': kwargs.get('block_migration') or False}

    def test_migrate_live_enabled_with_string_param(self):
        param = {'host': 'hostname',
                 'block_migration': "False"}
        self._test_migrate_live_succeeded(param)

    def test_migrate_live_without_disk_over_commit(self):
        pass

    def test_migrate_live_with_invalid_disk_over_commit(self):
        pass

    def test_live_migrate_block_migration_auto(self):
        method_translations = {'_migrate_live': 'live_migrate'}
        body_map = {'_migrate_live': {'os-migrateLive': {'host': 'hostname',
                                      'block_migration': 'auto'}}}
        args_map = {'_migrate_live': ((None, None, 'hostname'), {})}
        self._test_actions(['_migrate_live'], body_map=body_map,
                           method_translations=method_translations,
                           args_map=args_map)

    def test_migrate_live_with_disk_over_commit_raise(self):
        body = {'os-migrateLive':
                {'host': 'hostname',
                 'block_migration': 'auto',
                 'disk_over_commit': False}}
        self.assertRaises(self.validation_error,
                          self.controller._migrate_live,
                          self.req, fakes.FAKE_UUID, body=body)

    def test_migrate_live_migration_with_old_nova_not_supported(self):
        self._test_migrate_live_failed_with_exception(
            exception.LiveMigrationWithOldNovaNotSupported())

class MigrateServerPolicyEnforcementV21(test.NoDBTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        super(MigrateServerPolicyEnforcementV21, self).setUp()
        self.controller = migrate_server_v21.MigrateServerController()
        self.req = fakes.HTTPRequest.blank('')

    def test_migrate_policy_failed(self):
        rule_name = "os_compute_api:os-migrate-server:migrate"
        self.policy.set_rules({rule_name: "project:non_fake"})
        exc = self.assertRaises(
                                exception.PolicyNotAuthorized,
                                self.controller._migrate, self.req,
                                fakes.FAKE_UUID,
                                body={'migrate': {}})
        self.assertEqual(
                      "Policy doesn't allow %s to be performed." % rule_name,
                      exc.format_message())

    def test_migrate_live_policy_failed(self):
        rule_name = "os_compute_api:os-migrate-server:migrate_live"
        self.policy.set_rules({rule_name: "project:non_fake"})
        body_args = {'os-migrateLive': {'host': 'hostname',
                'block_migration': False,
                'disk_over_commit': False}}
        exc = self.assertRaises(
                                exception.PolicyNotAuthorized,
                                self.controller._migrate_live, self.req,
                                fakes.FAKE_UUID,
                                body=body_args)
        self.assertEqual(
                      "Policy doesn't allow %s to be performed." % rule_name,
                      exc.format_message())

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Rethinking Work in India
Having invested in India for over a decade, in 2019 Acumen concentrated its investment strategy on the areas most impacting Indians' living wages.
India's working-age population has skyrocketed to become the country's largest age group—a trend that will continue for at least the next 30 years. While this boom may seem like an opportunity for nationwide economic growth, the number of jobs has not kept pace: nearly 27 percent of India's 423 million young people are engaged in neither education nor employment nor training, and nearly half of the country's population is still living on less than $3.20 per day.
But the solution to rising unemployment and underemployment in India is not just about connecting working-age people to jobs. Tackling this issue requires connecting unemployed young people to good jobs—jobs where they feel safe, valued and can earn a living wage. This revolution in workforce development is not easy: India's labor laws incentivize employers to hire people as temporary, "informal" laborers rather than as permanent or contracted staff. Being an informal worker presents a difficult work landscape for India's young people. Informal work means lower wages without benefits such as healthcare, a pension or sick leave, nor protection against arbitrary dismissal or workplace accidents. Without a pathway to stable, reliable and dignified employment, families are left dangling without a safety net: it takes only one unexpected misfortune to plunge them deeper into poverty.
One approach to creating pathways to good jobs is through skill-development programs. Facing few job prospects in rural areas, millions of young Indians are migrating to cities—but without the skills they need to succeed in urban industries. It is a simple, yet daunting reality: to be a productive lifelong worker in today's economy, you have to also be a lifelong learner. Edubridge, Acumen's first workforce development investment in India, offers young adults job training to secure entry-level white-collar roles that require technical and interpersonal skills, such as technology or banking services. For nearly 95 percent of Edubridge's 100,000 students, this is the first time they are engaging in training, for some, the first time in their families. Daughter of a rural dam worker and a housewife, Pragati signed up for Edubridge's three-month banking and accounting course. She is the first woman she knows to move to the city to look for a job. "It's scary to be the first," she said. "But someone has to be the one to move forward." Without training, Edubridge's students would be unemployed or limited to working on small family farms or in informal jobs. To date, the company has placed over 70 percent of its students in stable, formal-sector jobs, empowering students like Pragati to break the cycle of poverty.
Creating pathways to opportunity in the formal sector is just one piece of the puzzle. To fully unlock people's potential and build the workforce of the future, India also requires enterprises addressing the needs of informal workers—over 90 percent of the country's workforce. Entrepreneur Gayathri Vasudevan is building towards a solution at the helm of LabourNet, a skill-building and job placement program that has already trained over 1 million people working in the informal sector. LabourNet offers over 130 training courses from cosmetology to construction safety as well as support starting a small business. Gayathri believes that improving informal workers' skills will not only increase their safety and productivity, but also their wages and job security: the more skilled workers are, the less likely their employers are to dismiss them—especially in India where skilled workers are often difficult to find. At LabourNet's core is Gayathri's vision to stand up for a largely voiceless group. "The informal sector," she says, "is often absolutely invisible. They're nobody's workers. They're building buildings for you, they're cleaning up roads for you, but you don't see them. So who's going to invest in them?" Inspired by Gayathri's leadership, Acumen became LabourNet's first equity investor. Where many have shied away from the problems of the chaotic informal sector, deeming them unsolvable, Gayathri has courageously envisioned solutions and adapted LabourNet's business model to meet their needs.
Beyond investing in companies, Acumen also supports leaders addressing the needs of the modern workforce at the systemic level through its Fellows Program. Acumen's Fellows are not only leading companies creating good jobs for low-income workers but also driving solutions ranging from recruitment platforms to alternative ways of accessing benefits. For example, Fellow Aniket Doegar co-founded Haqdarshak to help informal workers access government benefits such as healthcare and welfare for which they qualify—providing a social safety net to build a more secure life. Over 20 percent of the 2020 cohort of India Fellows is made up of leaders like Aniket, solving problems on behalf of workers and their families.
To help build sustainable solutions for the long-term, in 2019, Acumen also began to unite the fragmented national conversation on workers in India—across social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and heads of government ministries—to amplify our collective impact.
In an era that heralds innovation, it is still human beings that are driving India's workforce. By investing in companies and leaders championing new solutions, uniting sector leaders to drive the national conversation and more, we believe that Acumen's multi-pronged workforce development strategy can revolutionize the future of work in India and unlock human potential.
This excerpt on Acumen's strategy in India comes from our 2019 Annual Report.
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As students progress to the middle school, a variety of team sports are offered within the context of a school day. Students are introduced to a wide range of sports skills and are encouraged to develop skill in all sports rather than specialize in one. Foothill sport is governed by the Central California Conference(CCC) Friendship Games Committee. All students are taught to participate regularly and to value the role of physical activity and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. In addition to physical education instruction, middle school students may participate in extra-mural competition. The extra-mural experience broadens a child's physical education to include cross-school competition. The Physical Education and Extra-mural program in grades 5-8 offers our students sports such as flag football, soccer, softball, volleyball, and basketball. The programs emphasize basic techniques and strategies for various game play. Also essential to instruction is the element of conditioning students in endurance, strength, and flexibility for optimum performance. Extra-mural sports offered to grades 1 - 4 include flagball, volleyball, basketball and softball.
Students in the upper grade classes may try out for placement on the Silicon Valley Athletics League (SVAL) basketball team. If students who play basketball do not play in the league, then they have the opportunity to play in the CCC Friendship Games tournaments.


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One person was killed and another critically injured when a small plane crashed at Ryan Airfield on Tucson's far West Side on Tuesday morning.
The crash took place around 7:15 a.m., Tucson Airport Authority officials said.
A Rutan Long-EZ plane crashed near the small airport's Runway 6R.
One person was confirmed to have been killed in the incident, and "the other person was transported to a local hospital in critical condition," officials said.
Both the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash, TAA officials said.
The Long-EZ is a type of home-built two-seat kit aircraft, with about 700 planes in service. The first prototype of the plane flew in 1979. Long-EZs have been involved in at least three other fatal incidents over the years, including the 1997 crash that killed singer-songwriter John Denver.
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Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing boys.
Roundup of sex-abuse allegations at Penn State, The Citadel, Syracuse
As Syracuse University became the third U.S. college whose workers have faced high-profile allegations of child sex abuse this month, child welfare advocates say the accounts may be triggering a surge in reports of juvenile sex abuse.
The "Stop it Now!" group, which guides people who are concerned that a child may have been sexually abused, says its contacts have risen 130% since a former Penn State assistant football coach was charged on allegations that he sexually abused eight boys. Anne Bale, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that after the charges, its child abuse reporting hot line received twice the number of calls it normally does for five days.
That's not to say child sex abuse has been on an upward trend. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last year reported that incidences of child sex abuse declined by 38% from 1993 to 2006. But Stop it Now! executive director Deborah Donovan Rice said the college stories may be helping victims come forward.
"One of the things that having this story be so public and high-profile is doing, it's making it more acceptable to talk about this very difficult issue," Rice said Friday.
The Syracuse allegations are the latest of three child sex abuse cases at U.S. colleges that have gained national attention this month. Syracuse put longtime associate men's basketball coach Bernie Fine on leave Thursday after two former ball boys, now in their 30s and 40s, told ESPN that Fine molested them years ago. Fine, who has not been charged, denies the allegations.
In the Penn State case, former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is accused of 40 counts of sexually abusing boys over a period of more than 10 years, according to a grand jury's summary of testimony. Two Penn State officials stepped down after being charged with lying to the grand jury and failing to report the allegations of abuse to police. Longtime football coach Joe Paterno, who is not charged, was fired after reports that although he advised supervisors of allegations, he didn't inform police.
In a third case a former cadet-turned-camp counselor at The Citadel military college in South Carolina was arrested last month on charges of molesting at least five children in alleged incidents in the Charleston area. Those cases weren't linked to the Citadel, but the college this month revealed that in 2007, a former Citadel Summer Camp participant alleged that the man, his camp counselor, engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct.
The following is a roundup of some of the latest developments in these cases:
NCAA to examine Penn State's handling of scandal
The NCAA says it will examine how Penn State University has handled its child sex abuse scandal.
"This unprecedented situation demands the NCAA evaluate the university's accountability" and the application of NCAA bylaws, said the group's president, Mark Emmert, in a letter to the university.
The NCAA asked Penn State to provide information to several questions by December 16, including:
- How has Penn State exercised "institutional control" over issues identified and related to the grand jury report on the sex abuse allegations?
- What policies and procedures does the university have in place to "monitor, prevent and detect the issues identified in and related to the ... report or to take disciplinary or corrective action if such behaviors are found?"
- Have "each of the alleged persons to have been involved or have notice of the issues identified in and related to the grand jury report behaved consistent with principles and requirements governing ethical conduct and honesty?"
Judge assigned to Sandusky case resigns
Paterno has lung cancer, son says
Paterno, the 84-year-old coach who was fired last week amid the outcry over the handling of the Sandusky abuse claims, was diagnosed last weekend with lung cancer, his son Scott Paterno said Friday.
"He is currently undergoing treatment, and his doctors are optimistic that he will make a full recovery," Scott Paterno said in a statement. "As everyone can appreciate, this is a deeply personal matter for my parents, and we simply ask that his privacy be respected as he proceeds with treatment."
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Syracuse associate basketball coach calls allegations 'patently false'
Bernie Fine, the Syracuse associate men's basketball coach, denied allegations that he inappropriately touched two boys starting more than 20 years ago and said they were "patently false in every aspect."
Syracuse put Fine on leave Thursday after Syracuse city police said they were re-opening an investigation of the allegations made six years ago by former Syracuse ball boy Bobby Davis, 39.
That news came after both Davis and his stepbrother, Mike Lang, 45, who also was a Syracuse ball boy, told ESPN on Thursday that Fine had molested them when they were children. Lang's new allegations helped kick-start the new police investigation.
"Simply put, these allegations are patently false in every aspect," Fine said Friday in a statement released by lawyers representing him. "The fact is these allegations have been thoroughly investigated multiple times.
"When evaluating the veracity of these accusations, please keep in mind that credible media outlets were approached in the past to publicize these false allegations and declined to do so. I fully cooperated with all past inquires."
The university conducted its own investigation in 2005, and found that no one, even people who Davis said would support his accusations, knew of wrongdoing by Fine, Syracuse Senior Vice President Kevin C. Quinn said Thursday. Police in 2005 said they wouldn't pursue the case because the statute of limitations had expired, Quinn said.
Had the school found evidence or corroboration of the allegations, it would have terminated the associate coach and reported the case to the police, Quinn said. Syracuse placed Fine on leave "in light of the new allegations and the Syracuse city police investigation," Quinn said.
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Columnist: How many more college child abuse allegations will come?
A columnist for The Sentinel newspaper in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, told CNN on Friday that the Penn State case may prompt child sex abuse allegations at other colleges in the near future.
The Sentinel's Rich Lewis had written a column on the subject after the Citadel allegations, but hours before the Syracuse case became public Thursday.
Lewis said he wrote the column because, in part, he rejected arguments that Penn State's alleged lack of reporting allegations about Sandusky to police came down to a unique culture at the school.
He said the Penn State story will get college officials and reporters looking into past allegations at schools more aggressively.
"I can't imagine a more uncomfortable group of people than college and university presidents the day after the Penn State story broke, worrying if there perhaps had been something that they overlooked," Lewis said Friday.
Motivated college officials and journalists, along with victims who may be emboldened by the Penn State allegations, "suggest to me that we may be seeing a lot more cases in the coming weeks," Lewis said.
"It's not a prediction, because I hope that it's false. But it's a bad feeling about what might lie ahead," he said.
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Child-protection laws under scrutiny
This month's well-publicized scandals have some child welfare advocates and lawmakers calling for a look at whether laws requiring the reporting of child sexual abuse should be changed, CNN's Tom Watkins reports.
Changes should include tightening requirements among the states about who must report suspicions that a child is being sexually abused, said Lisa Fontes, a lecturer at University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of "Child Abuse and Culture - Working with Diverse Families."
For example, Pennsylvania has an unusually narrow category of mandated reporters, she said. The law requires teachers to report suspicions, but not school bus drivers or athletic coaches, she said.
But Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, wrote in USA Today that tighter requirements would be harmful.
"Changing laws now will lead to a deluge of even more false allegations from newly minted 'mandated reporters' protecting not children but themselves, because they fear being punished for failure to report. The time wasted on these cases will be stolen from children in real danger, so more such children will be missed," Wexler wrote.
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@JIF-sooooo ya want me to get some friends of friends to take the doc out?lol
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@ Scottish Mama:
Off the Doc.
Joey Isotta-Fraschini
Quanto devo, Mama?
For a friend nada.lol
@JIF-I meant with out your other names.
The troll will not know who is addressing it.
@Banasy.We could still address each other but the troll would get a headache. yes or no?
Or too confusing?
George (Joey)
@ George (Sco. Ma.):
It was a joke, George.
@ George:
How You doin'?
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Oh, yes, that's be hilarious!
Fun to try and figureg out who we're talking to, also...
No copyright by my name...
Wait! Scottisg George!
george hoe!
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George George-George!
Georgecat (in a hat)
chrissy could be georgie...
raven could be graven...
Who else am I missing?
Jeff Frank (R-Ohio)"Right Wing Insanity"
jif – Your 2:51pm. Your housekeepers daughter. We'll charge her with Perjery or Obstruction of Justice.
I know: you can still tell who it is.
@JIF I know. This would be hilarious. The troll would say f-it and leave.
@ "How you doin"
Although the troll would probably change his too.lol
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I think they bought her another doll or something.
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Velammal Inter School Talent Olympiad – VISTO 2016.
For students of Std. VI to Std. X.
The objective of VISTO is to identify students with talent and aptitude to excel in academics, help them to realize their potential, encourage them to take up ace careers in the field of Science and Technology and ensure the growth of the best scientific and skillful minds for the development of the country.
The Question pattern encompasses straight objective type questions, statement type questions, assertion & reason type questions, matching type questions and linked comprehension passage type questions in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
please conduct this VISTO-2017 SEASON 2 before or after 12.02.2017 because I have Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha exams on that day and therefore I don't want to miss this VISTO- 2017 SEASON 2. This is my kind request.
There are many centers given in my city. Which centre should I go?
we had registered for visto exam for my son. still now we didnt get any hall ticket or mobile sms.
Hall ticket will be given when you reach the exam centre. For my daughter I received a phone call from the organizers yesterday. Hope you will also receive the call soon.


I am looking for a caregiver support line that is 24/7, and not necessarily in California. But with my free cell, I can only call normal number, not UK or China or Japan or Canada.
Camarillo Health Care District has a number you can call. It says it's for Ventura County residents, but maybe they can direct you to a similar resource in your area. The number is 1-800-235-9980. Another number you can call is 211. It's a social services helpline.


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The next step will consist of notifying those closest to the deceased. This will not only include friends and family, but also the victim's doctor and employer. One should also take steps to care for the individual's pets and dependents.
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Regarding the Mindfulness Practice homework assignment, please reflect on that process and share its impact: positive, negative, or neutral. How could you use this in your own life or how could it benefit your clients?
As we discussed in class closure last week, please state 2 things that you are taking away from this course in Human Behavior and the Social Environment.
When I did my mindfulness practice I had an overall positive outcome. prior to doing my mindfulness exercise I turned off my phone, laptop, T.V. and closed my bedroom and laid on my bed and close my eyes. Although the stress of school and work kept creeping into my thoughts I knew that I had to tune out everything including thoughts would have distracted my mind body and soul. Once was able to tone everything out I was able to be in tune with everything around me. I took deep breaths every second and once I finished my mindfulness exercise I felt relaxed and claim. I can definitely see myself incorporating the mindfulness excercise in the future.
The first thing I took away from this class is remembering how the social, environmental, biological development greatly impacts others when working with vulnerable clients. The second thing i will take from this class is epigenetics plays an important role in our overall behavior and perspective in our life.
Mindfulness practice is very important. I suffer from both anxiety and depression. I read a couple books and deceived to give mindful meditation a try. I have practiced this technique for almost two years now. Mindfulness is a very useful technique for those who suffer from stress, anxiety, and depression. Generally, anxiety and depression symptoms increase when they reflect back on past events or project into the future. These habits increase the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Mindfulness allows you to focus on the "right now" and leave both the past and future behind.
I found this technique useful. There are several other techniques such as: Thai chi, yoga, and imagery meditation. I think each person has to find a model that works for them.
From this course I am taking away the stages of older adults and the ecological perspective. This will allow me to really focus on stressors in the environment that are keeping my clients from reaching their goals, help them find meaningful ways to change those.
The mindfulness exercise of sitting idle for 10 minutes was a chance to see where my mental state was at that current moment. As I sat noticing my thoughts, I recognized the racing, anxious clamors jab their way in like tiny saboteurs. As I let them enter and fade, the unimportance and irrationality of each thought become somewhat humorous. What really matters, everything? nothing? I surrendered to the futility of fighting against or for any particular thought. My attachment to my pressure filled stream of plans and images, loosened its grip. I settled on plainly imagining the color blue; simply the color blue. I experienced senses of freedom and moments of relief.
The perception someone has about their own identity is crucial to experiencing a purpose filled life. By helping individuals find a role which makes them feel connected to themselves and their community can lead to overcoming a myriad of social problems. The idea of knowing and believing in who you are, can impact your ability to rise above your station, and create a narrative counter to the one handed to you at birth.
The case study project we completed opened my eyes to the importance of rigorous attention to each child connected to my caseload. Although there may be many service providers encountering a given family, If I see a yellow or red flag of concern, it becomes my responsibility to take action.
I took 10 minutes the other day, in complete silence, to myself…and it was amazing. I am actually quite interested in mindfulness practices and try to implement them into my life as often as possible, but life often gets in the way. Over time, I have become quite practiced as meditative breathing, body scanning, and relaxation. The most recent experience, of a few day ago, reminded me of the importance of taking those 10 minutes to dissolve the stress of daily life, and reminded me that I should allow myself those 10 minutes more often.
The previously mentioned exercise is very closely related to one of the most important points I am taking from this class: self-care. Stress is an ugly and destructive monster that can lead to a variety of mental and physical health concerns. But more importantly, it diminishes one's quality of life. With that said, whether it be meditation, exercise, or bungee jumping, it is critical for people to allow themselves time to enjoy life. Self-care is particularly important for people in helping professions, as we tend to experience burnout a little more frequently, and a little more quickly than most other professions.
The second lesson I will take with me from this class is the importance of understanding where people are at in their life cycle, and how critically that impacts their current state. Going forward, remembering to pay attention to where my clients are at in life, and what they may have already been through, will be extremely useful in providing the best quality of care.
In our closure discussion last class time; I will take with me; grief teachings and concepts and all concepts of getting older in adulthood. I will use these helpful practices in my future adult day center to help all participants live a more meaningful and remainder of their golden years while in their late adulthood.
After watching the TED Talk on mindfulness I realized how I do not incorporate time to "just do nothing". Even the first time watching the video I was eating and semi-listening to my son explain a Pokemon's power. Needless to say, I had to watch the video again. This time more focused and alone. After internalizing the lack of self-care I take for my mind; I took the next ten minutes and tried to meditate. I found this hard to do since this is not something in my everyday practice. However, I can understand the need and have the motivation to include this into my everyday life. This would be a simple task to complete between driving from one client's home to the others, right before bed etc.
Wow, what a success in completing the first semester of grad school! I am beyond impressed with myself and my abilities. This class has helped me understand a lot and put some personal challenges (in work and personal life) into perspective. Two main things I will be taking with me from this class will be the entirety of information over the ageing population. This is a population I have not had a chance to work with, let alone take the time to acknowledge. The information provided over this population will allow me to not only assist any client at any age, by either explaining what is possibly going on in their own family or what is going on to themselves, but also allow me to be more patient with my own family. The second main thing I will take with me if the holistic approach that is needed for this profession. By assessing the biology and environment of each person allows for a different approach and perspective that the individuals deserve and need.
I loved the mindfulness practice, I have always found related activities successful. I would like to add this and yoga to my regular practices, I feel that both are very useful. I actually wrote part of a paper on mindfulness being used with sexually abused victims in my summer class, as an option to use if the individuals were not ready for therapy yet, or in conjunction with therapy. I feel that most Americans would benefit from taking the time to calm down with mindfulness. I have explored this on my own a bit, after attending a seminar last summer.
I am very thankful for this class overall. I am glad to have just read chapter 15 in regards to my Mom moving here from Colorado 3 years ago to be near me, and ultimately for me to care for her. I am glad that she is here and will have better knowledge towards helping her now. I also have 2 teenagers and thus putting that knowledge to use will be great as well..
Thank you for being a great instructor.
Congrats on finishing your LAST BLOG for the semester. Hopefully you will continue to use your website for a professional showcase in the future!!
Regarding mindfulness practice assignment, when taking ten minutes out of my day to simply do nothing other than focus on my mind and where I am during the present, I got a surreal feeling. Meaning that when I erased all other distractions and left myself with only my inner thoughts, the complexity of those thoughts increased and there was a sense of clarity in those thoughts. I would think of things such as where my life is and where it is headed, trying to maintain only the positive aspects of that future. This helped build my determination and gave me hope for things to come. I believe this process is a very positive one. This could be used in my own life and with clients during times when life seems a little overwhelming and there needs to be a way to get one's priorities straightened out. A lot of times we are too busy with the routines of life that we forget what is important to us.
The first thing I will take away from this course is the concept of epigenetics. That is, the way the environment affects our biology. As stated in the previous class, I work with those suffering from mental illness and it is important to learn what road led them to their condition rather than focusing only on the symptoms of their mental illness. Having this knowledge would help develop more effective treatment plans that are specific to each individual rather than using a cookie cutter approach for intervention based on the mental illness that they have.
The second thing I will take away from this class is the theories and concepts surrounding children, primarily those in younger childhood. The reasoning for this is because I have a younger brother who is 8 years old and through my observation of him along with the material presented in the book, the knowledge has an application in my own life which cements the knowledge I am learning.
The mindfulness practice involves taking a step back to reflect on one's thoughts and to do so without judgement, letting thoughts come and go. I find this process to be positive overall but I think it's difficult for me to implement it without assistance. This is probably because I am not used to taking the time out to be mindful and to focus on thoughts and feelings. I found it interesting in the video where it mentioned that 47% of our lives is spent thinking about all sorts of things so I definitely want to be able to incorporate such a practice from time to time because it's surprising that we all spend so much time just thinking. I'm sure there are moments that I could definitely benefit from letting my thoughts flow in order to refocus myself. I believe this would benefits my work with clients by teaching them to help let go of some of the stressors they are experiencing in a moment. Not to forget about these issues entirely, but to take 10 minutes to just not think and to stop overthinking and judging ourselves. I believe we could all use more practice at that.
I will take away additional knowledge about children, adolescents and adults that I think will help me with my work. I feel like it was important to address the different theories in order to provide a strong foundation when I find myself working with clients. There are so many different approaches to the issues we face and to realize that a person's problems can be addressed through many different perspectives is actually comforting. It makes me realize I don't need to know all the answers and I don't need to specifically use one approach to help a client problem solve. Understanding human behavior and how it interacts with our environment over our lifetimes encompasses such a vast amount of material but I'm learning that as social workers, it's not necessary for me to be an expert in one particular theory or area. I can be just as helpful by learning about my clients and learning what areas to apply to each individual in order to help them.
The Mindfulness Practice was very insightful. It really made me realize how much my mind wanders and how often I get lost in my thoughts and other distractions (TV, phone, Internet). The activity had a positive impact on me. Ten minutes does not seem like a long time, but it felt like forever to me. In that time frame when trying to step back from my own emotions to process things differently I found that I had more on my mind than I thought. It made me realize how active my mind constantly is. However, the activity was a good way to help me to regain focus, calm down and destress for a moment. This exercise will be helpful to use throughout my life when I am feeling stressed and overwhelmed and just need time to debrief and do nothing to recharge. This could potentially become a daily activity for me. This activity will be very beneficial to clients as well as it will allow them to not focus so much on the daily distractions and stresses of life but rather recuperate, destress and regain focus.
Two thing that I am going to take away from this class are the importance of understanding child development and how much impact the environment has on behavior and development. This class offered great insight on why children develop and possibly behave the way they do and how the environment also has a great deal to do with a persons development and behaviors as well.


Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding has delivered the first of two new pilot boats for the Charleston, S.C. pilots. This brings the number of pilots' boats built by the Somerset, Mass. shipyard for Charleston Navigation to seven within the past 40 years.
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At this year's SMM in Hamburg, Voith Turbo (Hall 5, Stand 212) will highlight the new Voith Water Tractor (VWT) Baut (pictured right) which has been put in service by Bukser og Berging A/S in Oslo. It is the fifth VWT of the Bukser fleet, but the first fitted with optimized blades.


Barbara Kellerman, author of Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders, introduces an excerpt on dealing with opponents of change from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Techniques for Changing Your Organization and the World, by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky.
Callousness, which manifests as an inability or refusal to consider the needs, wants, and desires of others, is a trait common to many bad leaders. When demonstrated by a leader who is seeking to create change, it's a surefire prescription for failure; the very people who are necessary to the successful adaptation of the organization are marginalized and become enemies of change. On the face of it, this excerpt from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, a how-to book extending Ronald Heifetz's seminal work on adaptive leadership, written with his associates Alexander Grashow and Marty Linsky, is a simple reminder for change leaders to keep their enemies close. But it is also much more. The authors define opponents of change in more humane terms, and offer a complex analysis of what happens in the minds of leaders when they get "connected to the opposition" and accept responsibility for the losses that change inevitably creates. And they explain how opponents respond. This excerpt is an antidote to callousness.
Who is most likely to oppose what you're trying to do? Potential opponents are stakeholders who have markedly different interests from yours and who stand to risk losing the most if you and your initiative go forward.
Once you've identified the opposition, stay close to them, spend time with them, ask for their input on your initiative, listen closely to their reality (especially where it differs from yours), and take their temperature to assess how much heat you are putting on them and how desperate they are becoming. Regularly get together for coffee, include them in meetings, and let them know you value their perspective and insights on your intervention. Of course, it is not a lot of fun to spend time with "the enemy." Recently, we had a hard time persuading the CEO of a governmental agency who was pushing for adaptive change to spend time with officials from the union that represented many blue-collar employees and fought him at every opportunity. Understandably, he did not look forward to the abuse he received at meetings with these officials. But it was critical for him to do so if he hoped to win some of them over, find a more integrative solution, or at least prevent them from stopping his work.
Resisters to your initiative are people who feel most threatened by it. They may believe that they will not be able to make the changes you recommend, that they might lose their job, or that they'll be worse off in some way if the initiative is carried out. You may agree or disagree with their perception, but it is their perception that counts for your purposes. Resist any temptation to try "straightening them out." Our experience suggests this would be a fool's errand and could actually set you back by stiffening their resistance. (Nobody likes being told that they "shouldn't feel that way.") Instead, accept that what you're trying to do is not in their interest. Compassion and empathy have their own reward in heaven, but they are also critical tools for comprehending the potential losses at stake for your opposition.
Authentic empathy has consequences. If you really understand the losses that your initiative would inflict on your opponents, you have to take responsibility for inflicting them. From your perspective, you did not create the adaptive challenge at hand, and your purpose is simply to mobilize people to grapple with the problem; you are not deliberately trying to make their lives miserable. It might be a lot harder to keep pushing your initiative forward single-mindedly when you have compassion for the people who will have to bear the losses.
Second, stakeholders will be looking to you to project certainty and thereby diminish their worry that the costs they will pay might not be worthwhile. Empathizing with your opponents might lead you to ask yourself, "Am I really doing the right thing?" If you start doubting your cause, you may end up revising your plan or even abandoning it, or undermining the confidence of some allies.
So why force yourself to spend time with your resisters? First, you will never seem as evil in person as you can be in people's imagination. Simply spending time in their presence can help take the edge off their hostility and thus soften their determination to block your efforts. For just this reason, when Marty [Linksy] was advising clients on media relations, he always encouraged people to accept invitations to go on hostile talk-radio shows or speak before opposition audiences.
There is another reason to make yourself spend time with resisters: by meeting with them, you can acknowledge the sacrifices you are asking them to make and how difficult and painful those sacrifices may be. For some people, that is all they need to hear in order to begin feeling less hostile toward you and your idea. Some may actually become supporters, while others may at least tone down their opposition.
Finally, spending time with the opposition enables you to assess firsthand how much pressure they feel from your initiative. You can then calibrate your tactics accordingly. For example, suppose you meet with union officials to discuss a cost-saving initiative that would require greater employee contributions to their generous health benefit plan. Watching body language and nonverbal cues in informal conversations might well give you information that you could not get in a more formal setting to indicate the importance to the membership of maintaining the current benefit as compared to other potential cost-cutting measures.
Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Press. Excerpt from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World. Copyright 2009 Cambridge Leadership Associates. All rights reserved.
Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has also served as the founding executive director and research director of the Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. A prolific speaker and writer, her books include Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Harvard Business School Press, 2004) and, most recently, Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (Harvard Business Press, 2008).
Ronald Heifetz is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School and founder of its the Center for Public Leadership. He is the author of Leadership without Easy Answers (Harvard University Press, 1994) and cofounder of Cambridge Leadership Associates.
Alexander Grashow is a managing director of Cambridge Leadership Associates and formerly cofounder and director of the Bridging Leadership Program at the Synergos Institute. He has served on the executive education faculties at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, Duke Corporate Education, and Harvard's Kennedy School.
Marty Linsky is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and was chief secretary/counselor to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. He is cofounder of Cambridge Leadership Associates and coauthor with Ronald Heifetz of Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).


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#ifndef ALITOFFEEREADER_H
#define ALITOFFEEREADER_H

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//                                                           //
//   This class provides the TOF FEE reader.                 //
//                                                           //
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/*
 * author: Roberto Preghenella (R+), Roberto.Preghenella@bo.infn.it
 */

#include "TObject.h"
//#include "AliTOFGeometry.h"

class AliTOFFEEConfig;
class AliTOFFEElightConfig;

class AliTOFFEEReader :
public TObject
{

 public:

  AliTOFFEEReader(); // default constructor
  AliTOFFEEReader(const AliTOFFEEReader &source); // copy constructor
  AliTOFFEEReader &operator=(const AliTOFFEEReader &source); // operator =
  virtual ~AliTOFFEEReader(); // default destructor

  /* getters */
  static Int_t GetNumberOfDDLs() {return fgkNumberOfDDLs;}; // get number of DDLs
  static Int_t GetNumberOfTRMs() {return fgkNumberOfTRMs;}; // get number of TRMs
  static Int_t GetNumberOfChains() {return fgkNumberOfChains;}; // get number of chains
  static Int_t GetNumberOfTDCs() {return fgkNumberOfTDCs;}; // get number of TDCs
  static Int_t GetNumberOfChannels() {return fgkNumberOfChannels;}; // get number of channels
  static Int_t GetNumberOfIndexes() {return fgkNumberOfIndexes;}; // get number of indexes
  static Int_t GetNumberOfIndexesEO() {return fgkNumberOfIndexesEO;}; // get number of indexes EO
  AliTOFFEEConfig *GetFEEConfig() const {return fFEEConfig;}; // get FEE config
  AliTOFFEElightConfig *GetFEElightConfig() const {return fFEElightConfig;}; // get FEElight config
  Bool_t GetChannelEnabled(Int_t iIndex) const {return iIndex < GetNumberOfIndexes() ? fChannelEnabled[iIndex] : kFALSE;}; // get channel enabled
  Int_t GetMatchingWindow(Int_t iIndex) const {return iIndex < GetNumberOfIndexes() ? fMatchingWindow[iIndex] : 0;}; // get matching window
  Int_t GetLatencyWindow(Int_t iIndex) const {return iIndex < GetNumberOfIndexes() ? fLatencyWindow[iIndex] : 0;}; // get latency window
  UInt_t GetTriggerMask(Int_t iddl) const {return iddl < GetNumberOfDDLs() ? fTriggerMask[iddl] : 0;}; // get trigger mask
  UInt_t *GetTriggerMaskArray() {return fTriggerMask;}; // get trigger mask array

  /* setters */

  /* methods */

  /* TOFFEE methods */
  void LoadFEEConfig(const Char_t *FileName) const; // load FEE config
  void DumpFEEConfig(); // dump FEE config
  Int_t ParseFEEConfig(); // parse FEE config

  /* TOFFEElight methods */
  void LoadFEElightConfig(const Char_t *FileName) const; // load FEElight config
  void CreateFEElightConfig(const Char_t *filename); // create FEElight config
  Int_t ParseFEElightConfig(); // parse FEElight config

  void ResetChannelEnabledArray(); // reset channel enabled array
  void ResetTriggerMaskArray(); // reset trigger mask array
  void Reset(); // reset channel enabled array
  Bool_t IsChannelEnabled(Int_t iIndex) const {return GetChannelEnabled(iIndex);}; // is channel enabled

 private:

  /* TOFFEE */
  Bool_t IsChannelEnabled(Int_t iDDL, Int_t iTRM, Int_t iChain, Int_t iTDC, Int_t iChannel) const; // is channel enabled (from TOFFEE)
  Int_t GetMatchingWindow(Int_t iDDL, Int_t iTRM, Int_t iChain, Int_t iTDC, Int_t iChannel) const; // get matching window (from TOFFEE)

  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfDDLs = 72; // number of DDLs
  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfTRMs = 10; // number of TRMs
  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfChains = 2; // number of chains
  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfTDCs = 15; // number of TDCs
  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfChannels = 8; // number of channels
  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfIndexes = 157248; // number of indexes
  static const Int_t fgkNumberOfIndexesEO = 172800; // number of indexes EO

  AliTOFFEEConfig *fFEEConfig; // FEE config
  AliTOFFEElightConfig *fFEElightConfig; // FEElight config
  Bool_t fChannelEnabled[fgkNumberOfIndexes]; // channel enabled
  Int_t fMatchingWindow[fgkNumberOfIndexes]; // matching window
  Int_t fLatencyWindow[fgkNumberOfIndexes]; // matching window

  UInt_t fTriggerMask[fgkNumberOfDDLs]; // trigger mask

  ClassDef(AliTOFFEEReader, 2);

};

#endif /* ALITOFFEEREADER_H */


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Big Fuzzy: Album Release
By Qadir Shabazz for Boston Compass
10 years in the making, 10 plus years of friendship -- after starting off with just a Vocalist and guitar player (Anneke & Max), the Big Fuzzy band has reached a level of settlement within their collective sound; adding Dan who plays the bass guitar and Austin who is a well known percussionist in the local area of Boston.
The newly added musicians gives the two original members the motivation and concrete direction to compose what would be the bands first self titled debut album under the label "Doll House Lightening". This collection of music gives me a feeling that sits with the idea of "Indie meets Jazz", from top to bottom I found myself not skipping a song due to the fact that each sound is fresh as it maintains the same feeling.
Riding over the sounds are the vocals of Anneke, whose vocals and choice of lyrics remind of someone along the lines of Esperanza Spaulding. It's cool, it's abstract -- I felt nothing but encouraged, uplifted and the driving sense of accepting the idea of optimism while listening thoroughly to what was being said over the dynamic guitar combination and Austin's impeccable drum playing.
The album is friendly, it obtains a lot of messages the fulfill any void of emotion -- I like it. If you're looking for something fresh that presents the identity of "for the love of music and uplifting people", then this Big Fuzzy album should definitely be on your list.
You can find their album on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Qadir


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Unannounced iPhone declassified
41-year-old Mena Suvari spoke about unexpected pregnancy
Liv Tyler told how she got sick with COVID-19
Nicole Kidman told how she 'hit' Meryl Streep on the set
Katy Perry decided to go vegan with her dog
Armie Hammer hit social networks with personal photos from a secret account
Meghan Markle's father decided to show her secret photos and videos
A rock climber in a wheelchair climbed a 250-meter skyscraper
A female giraffe accidentally stepped on a newborn baby and killed it
EA Agrees to buy Codemasters – $1.2 billion deal
BY John Kessler	 December 14, 2020 1:05 pm GMT+0300 171 Views
Take-Two was set to acquire the studio for approximately $994 million.
According to media reports, EA and Codemasters (DIRT) plan to close the deal in the first quarter of 2021.
The purchase was commented on by Codemasters Chairman Gerhard Florin, noting that the two companies have common ambitions to promote racing games further.
The head of EA Andrew Wilson added similar statements.
We believe that the combination of Codemasters and Electronic Arts will provide a great opportunity to create amazing and innovative racing games for our fans. Our industry is growing, the racing genre is growing, and together we will lead the way in a new racing entertainment era.
Andrew Wilson, head of EA
Initially, Take-Two claimed to buy Codemasters – in early November 2020. The studios had already agreed on a deal, which was estimated at $994 million.
UPDATE: Take-Two said in a statement that it's "considering its position" in relation to Codemasters and a further announcement will be made "when appropriate." https://t.co/AcjFsAwJzF
— VGC (@VGC_News) December 14, 2020
Take-Two commented on the news, stating that it is considering its stance towards Codemasters. The company will make a new announcement if necessary. Whether Take-Two is planning to challenge the EA deal is unclear.
Codemasters owns several racing franchises, including GRID, Colin McRae Rally, and the F1 World Rally Championship.
Gigi Hadid's mother accidentally showed the face of her little daughter
Soros, Rockefeller and Gates were accused of the COVID-19 pandemic
Diego Simeone is named as the best coach of the decade by IFFHS
Megan Fox moves in with Machine Gun Kelly amid Brian Austin Green's new romance
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Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstracts » Zoology and wildlife conservation
Ethics and research: sex, hearts and brains
Different ethical views on many areas of science exist in various cultures. In 1989, the United States, the United Kingdom and West Germany refused to conduct surveys of sexual behavior that would help predict the spread of AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency disease syndrome, while France approved such a survey. In Japan, heart transplantation operations are not performed because the Japanese can not accept brain death as the criteria for death instead of the cessation of heartbeat. In Japan and India, abortions are morally accepted and in India, a human fetal tissue bank will be established in 1990 to provide fetal tissues to researchers in developmental biology and organ transplantation. The present administration in the United States is against abortion and a ban was renewed on research of the transplantation of fetal tissue. In the United States and France, animal right activists protest research done on animals. There are new regulations for genetic engineering and biotechnology in various countries. In the United States, there is controversy concerning the use of genetically engineered genes in gene therapy. However, the insertion of a bacterial gene into humans, as a marker in cancer therapy, was recently approved by the National Institutes of Health. In the United Kingdom, it is a criminal offense to release genetically engineered organisms into the environment without notifying the government. West Germany does not have guidelines for the regulation of biotechnology, despite pressures from companies and universities. The European Commission has placed a 15-month moratorium on the use of genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, which increases milk production in cows. The different ethical views of people in various countries inhibit or encourage various areas of research and development. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
Laws, regulations and rules, International aspects, Ethical aspects, Genetic engineering, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Microbial biotechnology, Abortion, Medical ethics, Biotechnology, editorial, Fetal tissue transplantation
Brains, courage and integrity: Gandhi and Sakharov set us an inspiring example for the twenty-first century
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who lived between 1869 and 1948, and Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, who lived between 1921 and 1989, were both very intelligent and courageous. They had a significant impact on the political scene in their respective countries, and were prepared to make great personal sacrifices for the sake of their convictions. However, they were not merely vulnerable martyrs, as they were aware of how to make the most effective political use of their sacrifices. Their lives must serve as an example for the 21st century.
Author: Gehrels, Tom
Influence, Gandhi, Mohandas K., Sakharov, Andrei
Courage, vision and the Department of Energy
Department of Energy (DE) secretary Federico Pena will face future problems due to clashing interests by several political parties concerning the management of the DE. Pena will also expect to face some objections from several members of the Congress about the implementation of various programs. Furthermore, sensitive issues such as the cleanup of wastes from nuclear power stations and nuclear weapons production complexes are expected to plague Pena during his tenure as DE secretary.
Political activity, Political aspects, United States. Department of Energy, Pena, Federico
Abstracts: Herbicide resistance caused by spontaneous mutation of the cytoskeletal protein tubulin. Simple rules with complex outcomes
Abstracts: South Korean researchers under fire for claims of human cloning. Private deal puts Japanese researcher in hot water
Abstracts: Body size and risk of extinction in Australian mammals. Trends in wildlife management and the appropriateness of Australian university training
Abstracts: Scaling, energetics and diversity. Competition and coexistence
Abstracts: Stable sulphate clusters as a source of new atmospheric particles. Achieving low-cost emissions targets: there has been much discussion about ways to reduce the rate of atmospheric accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases


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Taxidermied Canine: Jens
One brown and white taxidermied canine, 1988. The male canine, named Jens, was a Greenland husky bred at Scott Base in the 1970s.
Associated Event
New Zealand Antarctic Programme (general)
Scott Base, Antarctica
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Part of a working team at.
The role of sled dogs in Antarctic exploration can not be overstated. The first dogs taken to the continent were Samoyed as part of the Southern Cross Expedition of 1899-1900 to Cape Adare. Every major expedition since then, including expeditions by Scott, Shackleton, Mawson, and Byrd, continued the practice. Over time, Greenland huskies replaced the Samoyeds and two of these huskies, bred at Scott base, feature in the Antarctic Gallery. Opolotok was born 1971and grew to be a huge hard working team member. Sadly, he suffered with frost bitten pads and died in 1977 at Scott Base. Jens was born the following year and died in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1988. When the dogs ceased operations in Antarctica Jens had been purchased by a dog breeder in Minnesota, America.
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Can somebody tell me something about this cam shaft ?
getting this as part of the ITB setup . . . can't find any info on it, it has a product number . . . but doesn't come up on google etc. Am only getting one . . . maybe the other one is already in the motor ??? Don't know if this is intake or exhaust . . . Also looking at some cams from the states from and crank been reading about people swap out the stock 2.3 ones with 2.5 / Evo I / Evo II ( I think from reading ) and adjust the valve clearances so they don't go through the roof - yikes ! Don't know much about this, need to talk to engine builder - but if anyone can see or confirm what this cam is - it would be good . . . just putting together a shopping list now . . . then go shopping . . .
Any insights, thoughts on the matter highly appreciated and regarded.
Re: Can somebody tell me something about this cam shaft ?
Good idea to post this on http://www.190rev.net. They're all over the 16v modification scene.
Will do Super Hasan ! Thanks for the heads up !


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5 takeaways from the NY Jets unofficial depth chart reveal
By Nathan Smith
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4. There's no clear favourite in the NY Jets kicker battle
The kicker spot has been one of the Jets' biggest weaknesses over the past few seasons, so in an effort to fix this, they brought in veteran Greg Zuerlein to compete with the incumbent Eddy Pineiro.
The veteran was said by many to be over the hill after stints with the Rams and Cowboys, but from all reports, Greg 'The Leg' can still get it done.
This battle will likely go down to the final day of the summer, as the three preseason games may prove the deciding factor for the Jets when choosing between the proven veteran or the younger upstart.
At this point, it's hard to speculate beyond what has been said and reported throughout training camp, so fans of special teams will need to pay close attention as the preseason rolls around starting this coming weekend.
3. Two surprise defensive frontrunners for the NY Jets
For the most part, the defensive starters should be set for 2022, but along with a great cornerback battle, the Jets have shown two surprise frontrunners for starting positions up front.
Both Solomon Thomas and Marcell Harris are listed as starters on the depth chart, but as both rookie Jermaine Johnson and recent free agent signing Kwon Alexander grow into this system, that could change.
While there's no doubt it will change as the season draws near, it just highlights how deep the Jets can be up front on the defensive side of the ball, especially if people like Johnson and Alexander are fighting for playing time.
The front seven is an area where snaps can no doubt be shared around, and right now, with all the talented players that inhabit this roster, it's hard for Jets fans not to be excited about the constant pressure that Robert Saleh's unit can be putting on opposing QBs in 2022.